Author: cparker
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Brent Lynch
Brent Lynch is a Canadian artist who transitioned from a successful 20 year plus career in illustration to the full time pursuit of gallery art and plein air painting. To my eye, Lynch’s paintings are often focused on the interplay of warm and cool colors — intense blues and greens in dynamic balance with deep,…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Lathrop etching
An Evening Walk, William Langson Lathrop Etching and drypoint, roughly 18 x 15 inches (45 x37 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. Lathrop was one of the group of painters active in the…
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Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French comics artist and writer noted for his graphic historical novels set during wartimes in France. He gained the attention of American readers of European comics with the translated version of his 2002-2005 graphic novel, Flight of the Raven, set in Paris during the WWII occupation. The book is beautiful, filled…
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Heinrich Berann’s panoramic map paintings
Heinrich Caesar Berann was a painter and cartographer from the mountainous region of Tyrol, Austria. In the latter part of the 20th century, he was commissioned by the U.S. National Park Service to create panoramic map paintings of several of our national parks. These are available online as fairly large images on Wikimedia Commons, at…
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Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings auction, July, 2019
I’ve mentioned in the past that high-end auction sites, like Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonham’s often have online auction previews that feature nice large images of museum quality artworks (as do their listings for past auctions.) The upcoming 19th Century European Paintings auction at Sotheby’s for July 9, 2019 is a case in point, and features…
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Avant Choi
Avant Choi is a concept artist and illustrator based in South Korea and working in the gaming industry. Beyond that, there is little background information on the artist’s ArtStation or Instagram presence. Choi’s environments, particularly those labeled as personal projects, are often whimsical, imaginative and brightly colored, in contrast to the often dark and dour…